Summer Coming of Age

Creative Statement

In middle age, social relationships become complicated, and people play different roles with the different people in their lives. By showing how two middle-aged fathers behave in different relationships, the film tries to offer audiences some comfort and insight. Middle age brings one crisis after another; how to adjust one's mindset to deal with them is what life is about.

Synopsis

Yang Zixi was raised by two fathers with very different personalities and opposing values. She has the love of two fathers, but is caught between her birth father, Yang Tianming, and her stepfather, Lei Dong, and works hard to keep the peace between them. On her 18th birthday, while both fathers are each doing their best to prepare her coming-of-age ceremony, she runs away from home. The two fathers are forced to set out together to find her. On this search they look back at the past, change themselves and, together with their daughter, start a new stage of life.

Genre:

Drama, Comedy

Director:

Yang Longjie

Screenwriter:

Li Han

Producer:

Liu Long | Li Haoming

Production Company:

Beijing Huacheng Media Co., Ltd.

About the Director

Yang Longjie: graduate of the Beijing Film Academy and senior director at CCTV-6 Movie Channel. He previously directed the Silk Road episodes of Discovery and Exploration on CCTV-10. His main works include The Perfect Victim, Love on the Third Day of the Third Month, Lost on the Wrong Road, Badminton Hero and Twin Flowers.

About the Screenwriter

Li Han: graduate of the film directing program at the Communication University of China. As a student, her screenplay Li Bai's Immortal Adventures won first place in the NEXT IDEA screenwriting competition organised by Tencent. Main works include A Little Red Flower, I'll Be Waiting for You in Beijing, Oh! My Emperor and Please, Monitor.

About the Producer

Liu Long: graduate of the Management Department of the Beijing Film Academy. He later worked in the purchasing and sales department of the Satellite Channel Program Production Center and is now general manager of Beijing Huacheng Media Co., Ltd. He has invested in and produced works including Love on the Third Day of the Third Month, The Tax Carriage, Black and White City, Starlight City, Happy Running, Flying Without Wings, Go, Girls! and The Perfect Victim, which performed well commercially and were well received in the industry. Li Haoming: graduate of the Management Department of the Beijing Film Academy, he has worked at Beijing Huacheng Media Co., Ltd. since graduating. Main works include The Perfect Victim, Starlight City, Go, Girls!, Love on the Third Day of the Third Month, The Tax Carriage and Black and White City.

About the Production Company

Beijing Huacheng Media Co., Ltd.: a media company under the Movie Channel Program Production Center. Its business covers film and television investment, production and distribution, and new media. Over ten years it has built a professional production team that focuses on developing realist works and aims to produce high-quality film and television.

Logline

When a daughter unexpectedly "runs away" on her 18th birthday, her two fathers, whose relationship is "awkward", are "forced" to team up and set off to find her, leading to a series of tragicomic events.